We were delighted to welcome three young footballers from Colyton who came to play board games with us in order to raise some funds for their trip to France to take part in a tournament. We're looking forward to them returning to tell us all about it. And so that we can beat them at Scrabble.

We've been putting out bird food and keeping an eye out in readiness for the RSPB Big Garden Bird Survey. On 26 January we turned our hand to origami and made some paper birds to decorate the tables just in case no birds showed up for the survey.

We always love to see the people and animals from Axe Wildlife so were very happy when they came to visit on 14 January.

As always, Archie the Armadillo proved to be a big hit with everyone scurrying under the chairs - can you spot the blur? We made some new friends this time as we got to handle some fluffy ferrets and a rather glamorous guinea pig who let everyone have a stroke.